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Slab with inscription
© Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Slab with inscription

Marble, 1st cent. A.D.
Rome
Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, inv. 49837

The inscription recalls a certain Romanus, the slave of Domitia Longina, Emperor Domitian's wife. Romanus worked as topiarius, that is, garden decorator, in the horti of Domitia.